http://blog.forret.com/2005/12/thought-dmca-was-bad-heres-dtcs/ and I mean it Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:16:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://blog.forret.com/2005/12/thought-dmca-was-bad-heres-dtcs/#comment-3431 blog.forret.com | Google and Perfect10: DMCA at its best Sat, 24 Jun 2006 18:57:35 +0000 http://peter.smoothouse.com/2005/12/27/thought-dmca-was-bad-heres-dtcs/#comment-3431 [...] If you take a look at the complaints Google has had under the DMCA at chillingeffects.org, you see that a lot of them concern owners of adult material: Playboy, Perfect10, Rabuck Agency. They are joined by Born-Again Christians, photographers and mostly people who saw their own content being copied or linked elsewhere. I’ve always had an instinctive disliking for the DMCA. Any law of this kind would have been written by people who can afford lawyers and lobbyists, and as we also see with its cousin, the DTCS (Digital Transition Content Security), they’re mainly tools to protect the media moguls. [...] […] If you take a look at the complaints Google has had under the DMCA at chillingeffects.org, you see that a lot of them concern owners of adult material: Playboy, Perfect10, Rabuck Agency. They are joined by Born-Again Christians, photographers and mostly people who saw their own content being copied or linked elsewhere. I’ve always had an instinctive disliking for the DMCA. Any law of this kind would have been written by people who can afford lawyers and lobbyists, and as we also see with its cousin, the DTCS (Digital Transition Content Security), they’re mainly tools to protect the media moguls. […]

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